: Re: Using poetry in novels a good option? I write fiction as well as poetry. And many a times I use poetry as a tool to bring out that acute feeling of pain or love (as required) in my explanations.

@Frith254

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I've read several books where chapters are introduced by a poem. I do not see a problem with that.

If you choose a more disruptive approach, like putting the poem between scenes (or within one scene), you generate a "damaging" effect. Many readers will be puzzled, you tear them out of your story and normally a writer tries to avoid exactly that.

But breaking a rule is not automatically a bad thing. If you want to do it, try it. I would probably not read it, but I could imagine that there is an audience which like this experiment.

The worst thing that could happen is that I'm wrong and no-one likes it. Then you have failed and failing is good, because you can learn from it. Experience is such a valuable thing, so go for it.

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